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Excerpt from aht.ca/who-we-are/our-history/:
Anishnawbe Health Toronto (AHT) is a vision of the late Elder, Joe Sylvester.
Initial efforts began with a diabetes research project, which realized that a more comprehensive approach to health care was needed by the Aboriginal community.
In response, Anishnawbe Health Resources was incorporated in 1984. One of its objectives stated, “To recover, record and promote Traditional Aboriginal practices where possible and appropriate.”
In 1989, having successfully secured resources from the Ministry of Health, Anishnawbe Health Toronto became recognized and funded as a community health centre.
Since then, AHT has and continues to grow to meet the needs of the community it serves. As a fully accredited community health centre, AHT offers access to health care practitioners from many disciplines including Traditional Healers, Elders and Medicine People. Ancient ceremonies and traditions, intrinsic to our health care model are available. Our work with the homeless has evolved from early directions of crisis intervention to our current efforts of working with those who seek to escape homelessness. Training programs offer community members the opportunity to learn and grow in a culture-based setting.
Today, AHT not only promotes Traditional Aboriginal practices but has affirmed and placed them at its core. Its model of health care is based on Traditional practices and approaches and is reflected in the design of its programs and services.
Excerpt from secure.toronto.ca/nm/api/individual/notice/2413.do:
Description
Take notice that Toronto City Council intends to designate the lands and building known municipally as 425 Cherry Street under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act.
Reasons for Designation
The property at 425 Cherry Street is worthy of designation under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act for its cultural heritage value, and meets Ontario Regulation 9/06, the provincial criteria prescribed for municipal designation under 5 criteria of design and physical, historical and associative, and contextual values.
Description
The property at 425 Cherry Street is located at the southeast corner of Front Street East and Cherry Street. The building is comprised of a three-storey structure fronting on Cherry Street, with a three-storey warehouse addition behind, extending along Front Street East. The building was constructed in three major stages - the two-storey Palace Street School, constructed in 1859 and designed by architect Joseph Sheard in the Jacobean style with an addition in 1869 by architect William Irving; the three-storey Cherry Street Hotel, constructed in 1890 incorporating the former school and designed by architect David Roberts Jr. in the Queen Anne Revival style; and the three-storey warehouse, constructed in c.1920.
Statement of Cultural Heritage Value
Design and Physical Value
The property at 425 Cherry Street is valued as a representative example of an evolved building type and style, reflecting the evolution of the property from its early use as one of the city's early "free" schools, to a hotel, a warehouse, and a restaurant. The building contains representative elements of the Jacobean and Queen Anne Revival styles, the former being used for many of the first schools constructed by the Toronto Board of Education, and the latter a popular style in Toronto for house form and hotel buildings between 1880 and 1910. While altered through later additions, elements of the Jacobean style can be seen on the first two floors of the former school's west and south facades, including the use of brick cladding (buff and red), brick quoins at the window surrounds and at the building's corners, the symmetrical organization of the facades featuring central projecting frontispieces bound by large rectangular window openings; and the stone drip moulds over the south entrance and the second storey window above. The building's Queen Anne Revival style is evidenced in the portion of the building constructed as the hotel (at the corner of Front and Cherry Streets) and in the third floor addition above the former school, and include the mansard roof with dormer windows; the arched window openings on the second storey; the elaborate use of brick ornamentation at the second storey cornice; the large plate-glass storefront windows with sandstone details; and the Dutch gable with inset Palladian window opening. The three-storey warehouse addition features elements indicative of the warehouse building type, including large rectangular window openings with cast stone lintels and brick sills; a flat roof with brick parapet; and minimal architectural ornamentation.
Historical and Associative Value
The historical and associative value of the property at 425 Cherry Street resides in its construction as the Palace Street School (1859), its subsequent adaptive reuse as the Cherry Street Hotel (1890) it's later conversion for use as a warehouse for various manufacturing and transportation-related businesses (1920), and its having been the location of the Canary Grill, from 1965 to 2007. Originally constructed in 1859 as one of the early "free" schools built in Toronto by the Toronto Board of Education and the first free school to serve St. Lawrence Ward, the one-storey schoolhouse was designed by architect, alderman and future Mayor of Toronto, Joseph Sheard. In 1869 the structure was expanded to the designs of architect William Irving, a former apprentice in Sheard's office and a prolific architect in Toronto through the second half of the 19th century. The Palace Street School is also associated with Georgina Stanley Reid, an educator with the Toronto Board of Education who served as principal of the school from 1882 until its closure in 1887, and who continued to serve as principal of its replacement school, Sackville Street Public School (now Inglenook Community School), until her retirement in 1912.
Following construction of the larger Sackville Street Public School in 1887, the Toronto Board of Education sold the property to brewer, businessman, and real estate developer Robert Thomas Davies, who had the building converted into a hotel to the designs of architect David Roberts Jr. in 1890. David Roberts Jr. had previously designed much of the nearby Gooderham and Worts Distillery, as well as a number of hotels, including the nearby Dominion Hotel on Queen Street East, which was also owned by Davies. Robert Davies was an influential industrialist in late Victorian Toronto who owned a concentration of businesses along the Don River; he was the founder of the Dominion Brewery, and later owned the Don Valley Brick Works and Don Valley Paper Company Limited. The hotel which at various times was called the Iverson Hotel, Darcy's Hotel/Hall, Eastern Star Hotel, and Cherry Street Hotel, was a fixture within the Corktown community from 1890 to 1910, however its role within the neighbourhood diminished alongside the demolition of the surrounding area's residential character, the displacement of the neighbourhood's working-class residents, the relocation of the nearby Don Station, and the expansion of railway lines and supporting industries. The property was subsequently converted for warehouse and manufacturing use, and the three storey warehouse addition was constructed on the east façade of the building c.1920.
In 1965 the Canary Grill moved into the first floor, and became a well-known establishment within the area catering to those employed in transportation and manufacturing-related industries, as well as commuters. Through the latter half of the 20th century studio spaces within the building were leased to a wide range of creative and cultural tenants, including musicians, artists, manufacturers and cultural sector workers. In the late 1980s, the property was expropriated as part of the joint municipal and provincial governments' plans to redevelop the West Don Lands into a new neighbourhood, called "Ataratiri". The expropriation resulted in the eviction of many of the building's tenants, however the Canary Grill remained open until 2007, after which the building was fully vacated.
Contextual Value
Contextually, the Palace Street School / Cherry Street Hotel is significant in its relation to the former Canadian National Railways Office Building, located on the northeast corner of Front Street East and Cherry Street, and is part of a larger post-industrial landscape within the West Don Lands, which includes the Gooderham and Worts Distillery, Cherry Street Interlocking Station, and the Dominion Foundry Complex. The CNR Office Building was constructed in 1923, and is recognized on the City of Toronto's Heritage Register. The two buildings complement each other, with similar setbacks from the corner and with a common low-scale brick clad form. Together, the properties form a gateway into the West Don Lands neighbourhood, a mixed-use area constructed as part of the 2015 Pan Am and Para Pan Games, and form a significant landmark within the community.
Heritage Attributes
Design and Physical Value
Attributes that contribute to the value of the property at 425 Cherry Street as representative of the Jacobean style and the Queen Anne Revival style include:
- The scale, form and massing of the former school and hotel buildings
- The symmetrical organization of the facades of the former school building, featuring centre bays bound by large rectangular window openings
- The setback of the former school building from the hotel addition on the west facade
- The use of brick cladding (buff and red) with stone foundations and sandstone detailing
- The brick detailing, including the corbelling below the mansard roof on the former school building the inset detailing on the west façade of the former hotel, and the engaged brick pier on the third floor of the west façade that extends above the cornice line alongside the corner window
- The ornamental wrought iron railing set above the corner entrance to the former hotel building
- The brick quoins, located at the corners of the former school building, the protruding bays, and the window surrounds
- The stone drip moulds over the entrance on the south facade and the second storey window above
- The mansard roof with high hipped dormers extending above the roofline
- The brick end wall on the south façade, with stepped brick detailing
- The flat headed window openings on the former school building with splayed brick lintels
- The arched window openings on the second floor of the former hotel building with radiating brick voussoirs
- The flat headed window opening set within the curved corner above the primary entrance of the hotel building
- The two-over-two hung wood windows on the former school and hotel buildings
- The entrances to the former school building on the south and west facades, both set within brick openings with shoulder arched openings
- The prominent corner entrance to the former hotel building, set atop a short flight of stairs and within a chamfered corner, with a large transom window above
- The round arched door opening on the north façade, which has been infilled
- The brick chimney on the north façade, with inset brick detailing at the third floor and above the roofline
- The large plate-glass storefront windows on the west facades with sandstone details set between brick and sandstone pilasters and below a metal-clad signboard and cornice
- The Dutch gable with inset Palladian window opening and featuring a radial transom window
Attributes that contribute to the value of the property at 425 Cherry Street as representative of the warehouse building type include:
- The scale, form and massing of the three-storey warehouse addition
- The red brick cladding with brick foundation
- The regular rhythm of the large rectangular window openings with cast stone lintels and brick sills, and multi-pane steel sash windows;
- The flat roof with brick parapet.
Attributes that contribute to the contextual value of 425 Cherry Street at the intersection of Front Street East and Cherry Street and its identification as a local landmark include:
- The setback, placement and orientation of the building, with its corner entrance and prominent curved corner windows above facing towards the intersection of Front Street East and Cherry Street
- The view of the building looking east on Front Street East from Cherry Street, and in relation to the adjacent Canadian National Railway Office Building
Another shot if the disposal of 45596 Bahamas during her recent visit to Wansford. Tom looks on as Gary and Dave fettle.
There is nothing quite like the feeling of standing on a beautiful stretch of the beach in the calm serenity of morning watching entranced by the magnificence of nature’s light show. The slow, steady and inevitable movement of the sun as it pours through the point on the horizon and gradually pulls itself into shape as the warm and life giving ball of light that we are all so familiar with.
I stand there and my mind drifts off to think about the physics that go into making that shot. It’s all very strange to think that the photons that are hitting my camera sensor left the surface of the sun eight minutes and ten seconds earlier and in fact the giant ball of gas is already high in the sky but we just can’t see it yet. The life of those photons actually started deep inside the sun and they have been beavering their way to the surface since before any humans walked the earth. A photon is created as a bi-product of the fusion reactions going on inside the core of the sun when Hydrogen is fused into Helium. The photon then spends anything from 50,000 to 500,000 years being bounced around in the solar soup of Hydrogen and Helium trying to avoid being re-absorbed and make it the 700,000 kilometres to the surface and freedom. For every single photo that escapes there were countless trillions that were pulled back into a hydrogen nucleus and made to start again.
So next time you are standing there enjoying the spectacle that is a beautiful sunrise think about the time and energy that went into make it all happen and then realise that the little effort you need to put in to getting through the day is a drop in the ocean in comparison the poor photon that we all take so for granted.
Taken through the windows of the Terminal, which played havoc with the colours. Despite my best efforts I cant balance them.
It is time for us to renew our relationship with the planet and to stop the rampant deforestation, uncontrolled expansion of agriculture, intensive farming, mining and infrastructure development, as well as the exploitation of wild species. The choices we make from now onwards will be key to the future of the planet and to our own very existence.
Rainy weather for the entire week has made getting out a shoot quite troublesome. In an effort to make anything happen with the 8x10, I found a small break in the weather that was long enough to make some quick family portraits. There's a lot of downsides to making portrait work with large format, but one big advantage is being able to change where your depth of field lies with camera movements. In these portraits I made use of a great little trick featuring some forward tilt of the front standard.
In making this rainy day portrait, I also made a video of the process and discussing the idea of photographic output. You can check it out here:
Tachihara 8x10 Double Extension
Fujinon-W 250mm f/6.7
1/30 sec. @ f/8 + front tilt, fall
Kodak TMAX 100 @ ISO 100
Pyrocat HD 1:1:100, N+1
Peekaboo!
Finally got my rear in gear and made an effort to find some insects.
Thing went well, I still feel I have stacks to learn though - For example a lot of the time getting my tripod into position was scaring the bugs away....Need better technique!
Today was also pretty windy. Most of my shots where of insects whizzing past the camera lens looking like a blur. But on occasion I was able to nail focus.
Also, because of the movement from wind I was MFing everything though the viewfinder. Hardly precision focusing. But again, take enough shots and eventually one will be okay ;)
The locomotive was red, though somewhat faded. The purple hue is courtesy of the Lomography film: "...this unique color negative emulsion lends a whiff of retro charm and classical analogue character ... fascinating blue nuances, glowing reds and tender pastel hues ..."
Deutsche Bundesbahn's Class 217 was a derivative of the earlier V 160 mid-size diesel-hydraulic locomotive. V160s were a very common sight, but have now all been phased out.
I don't know much about the steam loco standing next it, except that it was in bad shape and would need a lot of restoration effort.
Seen at Eisenbahnmuseum Kranichstein, Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany
Nikon EM
Nikkor E Series 50mm f/1.8 manual focus lens
LomoChrome Color ’92 35 mm ISO 400, exposed at ISO 200
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
A water lily starts growing from the bottom of the pond in the spring to bloom at the surface in the summer. Is this Herculean effort worth it? You bet!
Almost 3 weeks later, my sourdough bread is ready for it's bowl of homemade Clam Chowder. Luckily the chowder was easier and quicker.
Developed in the 1970's by JNR in an effort to use less overhead energy due to the Yom Kippur War, the 201 Series was a commonly seen EMU in the Greater Tokyo Area for commuter and rapid services. Nowadays, their numbers are dwindling, and will soon be extinct from JR rails.
One hold out for this stock still remains on JR's Yamatoji Line. Starting in Namba in downtown Osaka, the Yamatoji Line connects to Nara, and serves much of the southern Osaka metro area. The green and white 201's currently operate hand in hand with their replacements, the 221 Series. It's very likely these old trains will be retired completely in a year or two. Here, a Nara bound kakueki-teisha (local) approaches Imamiya as it leaves Namba behind.
JR Yamatoji Line.
JR 201 Series.
Daikoku, Naniwa Ward, Osaka
We are now well into the cycle race season. This one was taken during my first visit of the season to the amateur cycle racing which takes place on the local circuit of Goodwood Motor Race Circuit. They hold these on Tuesday evenings which makes for some beautiful light and colours if the weather plays ball. I took a lot of pictures but the effort on this riders face really demanded some special treatment.
I used the event to give a first try out of my new 75-300 second hand Minolta lens bought for £60 on Ebay. One big advantage of Sony is that the Auto Focus motor is in the Camera not the lens like Canon and Nikon. This gives the advantage of cheaper lenses and useable old film lenses. The picture was taken handheld with a Sony A700 with a Minolta 75-300mm zoom at 300mm
The image was first edited in RAW. I next cloned out an ugly bright white shed in the background. Further adjustments were made using Topaz DeNoise. Next the image was adjusted in Topaz lens effects to add a zoom blur. The zoom centre was fixed on the cyclists face. The effect was applied on a duplicate layer and a layer mask. A brush was then used to exclude more of the cyclist. The big advantage of a layer mask is the ability to precisely control how much of the effect to apply to each part of the picture by using a brush on the mask with different opacity. For example the background cyclists were originally not visible through the zoom effect. A brush at about 12% opacity was used to remove enough of the zoom to allow their shapes to appear without distracting too much from the main cyclist.
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Over the last 9 months, with some crazy life stuff going on, ive had very little chance to add to flickr. The main thing taking my build time though, was this behemoth. It was originally designed by Corvus Auriac MOCs for a client as a digital commission, before it came to me for re-engineering and a set of buildable instructions designed for it. This was such an amazing and grand project, starting at 12,000approx pieces, and ending with a grand total of 18,500approx once the interiors, modularisation and landscaping was done. I designed removable frames for the left and right edges, so its able to continue on, should the grand new owner decide it needs further landscape/town. it came to a total of 1697 pages for the instruction booklet. Quite a hefty and ultra enjoyable project and super pumped to have been brought on board for it! All the parts were sourced in one order by Aussie Brickster, on Bricklink.. it has been such a great and international team effort!
This is my latest effort to use up my growing button collection. All of these buttons were clipped from plaid shirts that I bought at thrift stores.
One of my friends uses epoxy, and he offered to let me try it out with his materials (including these funky molds). He showed me how to mix the epoxy and add colours.
I would love to continue dabbling in epoxy, though next time I will add more buttons. It will take some trail and error to see how well the buttons show through. For example, I thought the buttons would show through super well with the white, but disappear in the dark brown. Apparently not. I also want to make the epoxy less bubbly.
My favourite one is the orange leaf. My friend added some metallic pigment that made it sparkle, and it was still transparent enough to showcase the buttons.
Added to "Crazy Tuesday".
Just realised that the blossom is nearly over and I have not grabbed a shot this year......so here my 2015 effort
Despite the heroic efforts of the PBR bull fighter Lucas Teodoro., the twenty ninth ranked rider in the world, twenty four year old Silvano Alves of Pilar do Sul, São Paulo, Brazil is greeted by the bull Codigp following Alves’ successful ride in the opening round of the 2022 Professional Bull Riders Buck-Off at the Garden at Madison Square Garden in the New York City borough of Manhattan.
Fortunately, Alves was able to walk off to the locker room area without assistance.
Alves scored an 86.25 for the ride to rank in eleventh place in the standings heading into the second and final night of the event.
Photo by Bruce Adler
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Pushed me to the shadow zone
It sounds like the worst fortune
Just to abandon me on the lone
Time to sail away on my own
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"Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire."
— Helen Keller
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Pas facile pour cette UM de 67400 qui donne tout ce qu'elle peut afin d'hisser ces quelques wagons chargés de bobines d'acier jusqu'à l'usine Arcelor Mital de Saint-Chély-d'Apcher. Le convoi traverse le village de Loubaresse dans un cadre typique de Cantal.
In an effort to try new things and challenge myself, I tried out Image Stacking method to try and reduce the amount of people in a day shot. On this trip I didn't bring a tripod so I couldn't use an ND Filter. I ended up taking 5 photos over the course of 2 or 3 minutes and used the Median method in Photoshop. This yielded a somewhat decent result although there was ghosting like you'd see in a night or long expsoure shot so I wasn't too thrilled with the outcome.
I ended up just putting all 5 photos in one document as layers and masking out the parts where there were people near the lens. The farther away people were really hard as those were never clean areas so that is something I need to look out for in the future. But in the end I like the outcome as it provides a way of seeing Spaceship Earth without being too cluttered up front.
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Matka Canyon shows its most rugged face here. The trail to the Saint Nicholas Šiševski monastery climbs steeply from the very beginning and is known as a demanding 60-minute ascent. No gentle walkway, but loose stones, rocky slopes, and sections where you almost have to scramble. Kanitha started with her jacket on, but after just a few minutes of climbing the effort made it impossible to keep it on. Here you see her halfway up the steep, stony path, balancing between boulders and shrubs — exactly the kind of terrain that makes this route so challenging. As the forest slowly sinks behind you and you climb higher, the silence of the canyon becomes more intense. Below, the colours of the water fade; above, a new stretch of mountain slope appears with every turn. It’s a climb that demands effort, but one that rewards you as well: at the top awaits the view over the limestone walls, the Treska River, and the small brightly coloured kayaks far below. In this moment of focus and perseverance, Matka Canyon reveals why this hike is unforgettable — rugged, quiet, and pure.
The steep one-hour climb to the Saint Nicholas Šiševski monastery shows Matka Canyon at its wildest. Kanitha works her way up the rocky path, jacket off from the effort, surrounded by loose stones and rough slopes. As the forest falls away, the silence deepens — a tough ascent, but worth every step for the views over the river and cliffs below.
Matka Canyon toont hier zijn meest ruige karakter. Het pad naar het klooster Saint Nicholas Šiševski begint meteen steil, en staat bekend als een zware klim van zo’n 60 minuten. Geen vlak wandelpad, maar losse stenen, rotsige hellingen en stukken waar je bijna moet klauteren. Kanitha begon nog met haar jas aan, maar na een paar minuten klimmen zorgde de inspanning ervoor dat de jas uit moest. Hier zie je haar midden op het steile, stenige traject, balancerend tussen rotsblokken en struiken — precies het soort terrein dat deze route zo uitdagend maakt. Terwijl het bos zich langzaam achter je sluit en je hoger komt, voel je de rust van de canyon intenser worden. Beneden verdwijnen de kleuren van het water, boven je duikt telkens een nieuw stukje berghelling op. Het is een klim die inspanning vraagt, maar ook één die beloont: boven wacht het uitzicht over de kalkstenen wanden, de Treska-rivier en de kleine felgekleurde kajaks diep onder je. Hier, in dit moment van concentratie en doorzettingsvermogen, laat Matka Canyon zien waarom deze tocht onvergetelijk is — ruig, stil en puur.
Thought For Food: Worth Putting The Effort Into (?) A Japanese Dinner - IMRAN™
It takes time, patience, all the needed items, everything in the right place, and discipline … but it’s so worth putting the effort into … ordering… a Japanese meal delivery. 😀
You didn’t seriously think I could possibly make these myself. 😉 I was tempted to takes the rolls out of the delivery trays before taking the photo for the sake of the joke. But I was sure the pieces would get smushed and break apart.
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I'll be over my posting of old fashion shots soon don't worry....
I seem to be filthy with images that never made it to print. This is another.
After all the film was in, the client decided that she didn't like the other model (which she had booked herself), thinking her breasts were to big for bridal. So she canned the entire thing. None of it ran. It's all sitting in a box somewhere and the only reason I even have this is that it was a snip test from the lab. I wish that I could get into that box someday...if it even still exists.
I remember what's in there...
Mamiya RZ57 with Kodak SW transparency